On his blog, John Robb has linked to a presentation of John Boyd’s. There was a lot that struck me in the course of watching the video, but one passage stood out above all the others. In it, Boyd lays out the process that developed the F-15. Rather than starting with how engineers could assemble [...]
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John Boyd and Multivalent Doctrine
Posted in Doctrine, tagged Counterinsurgency, F-15, FM3-24, FM5-0, John Boyd, John Robb on August 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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